Lyrics Of My Youth: Sail Away

Sail away, tonight I'll sail away
And if my love, you'll sail with me
We'll write the ocean poetry
On the everchangin' colors of our minds

The stars are dancing wildly to the music of the wind song
And the night laughing free
While the restless ocean rhythm calls me on
For magic swept away the storm clouds
And cast bright starshine in the sky
And magic built a boat for me
Of balsam wood and pine

Sail away, tonight I'll sail away
And if my love, you'll sail with me
We'll write the ocean poetry
On the everchangin' colors of our minds

~~~~~
From November 1972

Lyrics Of My Youth

Somewhere back in the early 1970s, I fancied myself a songwriter and folksinger. I recently unearthed some lyrics and music sheets from those times, and I wondered: Where did that strange young woman go with her poems and her dreams? What would I think of her if I met her now?

In James Joyce's Ulysses, the character Stephan Dedalus ponders: "My childhood bends beside me. Too far for me to lay a hand there once or lightly. Mine is far and his secret as our eyes. Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tryants willing to be dethroned."

And so I am posting some of my old lyrics here, bringing them forth from their weary and dark and secret palace, into the light of this new millennium. And I am finding in those old lyrics a few moments of charm and beauty and magic still.

I share them here with an older, and wearier world. Perhaps that strange young woman who journeyed so far in her dreams would smile.

Lyrics Of My Youth

Sail Away

Lyrics Of My Youth

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